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Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet

by Disq

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C C I can't pick a favorite song here; they are all great for different reasons. My favorite number of songs = number of lead singers in Disq = number of guitarists in Disq. (That number is an impressive 3 by the way.) I didn't know who they were before I saw them live in suburban Pittsburgh PA but they captivated me there. This album keeps that feeling going. Great job, Disq!
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M.G. Turnis Wonderful new release from an up and coming Madison WI band. Prize Contest Life is a wonderfully noisy pop song that should be played constantly on college radio. Did I forget to add they are a very fun band to see live. Can't wait for the next release ! Favorite track: Prize Contest Life.
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1.
Are you hot enough for iron to be struck You wanna drive the truck but the way that you’re set up you don’t There’s not a question of whether you won’t When all the consequences are remote Where is the joke? Oh no Please explain the joke You can write it down Where civilization’s involved there’s no consolation involved And there is no knee to protect Or any vacation to be had Well then again Situations shift like water turns to piss No permanent eclipse, but if you stare right into the sun Well then your vision is gonna be fucked There’s not a battle that’s easily won by anyone Oh no Please explain the joke You can write it down Please explain the joke Now that the thought screams more than the memory Closing your eyes hurts more than the sensory Sifting through sounds is just like the other thing Circling round is just like a wedding ring
2.
Bright, never ending light Ever changing shapes, dancing in the sky Things I knew before, come back to my mind I can see the glow, shining all the time In every life, buried deep inside There’s a secret door, on the other side Every single thought, floating in the tide I can feel it pull, nothing left to hide I know where you go to It’s so high above you You’ll know just what to do When it’s time to Night, falling through the sky Deep into the dark, losing sense of time Suddenly it stops, I’m running towards the light Everyone I love, projected in my mind And as I cry, the fear begins to die Spirit stripped of self, naked and alive Even with the truth, can’t look you in the eyes I can’t be left alone, not even for a night I know where you go to It’s so high above you You’ll know just what to do When it’s time to I know where you go to When your body leaves you I’ll know just what to do When I have to Time presents itself again It circles back, and leaves me where I am I watch myself from outside of myself And find a way back in I’m in and out of it I spin and spin, but never move an inch The mountains turn to trees, again It pulls me in I know where you go to It’s so high above you You’ll know just what to do When it’s time to I know where you go to When your body leaves you I’ll know just what to do When I want to
3.
Cujo Kiddies 03:51
Fun times done Off to work now  Seen the sober months say That’s the hetero way  I think I don’t need touch   And I do too much  Raina tell me how you feel  Cujo taught me how to heel  How am I meant to be still  Everything is such a deal  Cujo taught me how to chill  Actions done  So I gotta be pro now Buckle up cujo kiddie  This is Saks 5th speaking  Buy a new suit  And get a new bit  And nobody will notice  If you look like you are doing good Raina tell me how you feel  Cujo taught me how to heel  How am I meant to be still  Everything is such a deal  Cujo taught me how to chill  In a dream I slept the other week  Crushed my face onto the velvet seat  Of a 7 person minivan  Heard the liquid you were holding down  I finally hooked up with the metal machine  Im finding comfort in the metal machine  I finally hooked up with the metal machine  Im finding comfort in the metal machine  I brace myself and then I find another  Keeping it up if I am getting taller  Skipped the drink so I am getting smaller  Holding it down with only chicken wire  I finally hooked up with the metal machine  Im finding comfort in the metal machine  I finally hooked up with the metal machine  Im finding comfort in the metal machine
4.
This Time 03:02
Come Around, you wanna know what’s good It’s time to wait around until you say the thing you should Do I have to write it out, you can’t hear anymore I tried to read out loud but I couldn’t say a single thing ‘cause I assumed you to be mine Where were you when I needed you this time? I guess I’ll drag this out and see what happens then Far away I think of what is wrong I tried to write it down but what I wrote it didn’t mean a thing ‘cause I assumed you to be mine Where were you when I needed you this time? Don’t know why you were kind Couldn’t you have told me it’d be the last time And now I’m trying too hard ‘Cause I don’t know where to begin I wonder how to escape And now I realize I can’t ‘cause I don’t know myself If all I know is you Scrolling in twos what would you think I’d wanna do? I find and I find I go on again I finally find It’s not the same thing! Falling in too? How could I think you wanted to
5.
The Curtain 02:39
Count the ways to know on one end A number of things that might happen Your perspective, Yeah who else The eyes of portraits move in stealth Keep myself here reclined For a long long time and My hands tied at my side where I left them I’m aware the fact is that we grow old somewhat Still don’t think I can bear to just see it happen Did you think it through well enough Every day the sun’s coming up Throwing ashes onto the lawn Still not sure where they belong Well there’s clowns abound To the planets surface But they seem so earnest We could drop the pretense But still the plot won’t make sense in the slightest And I know the fact is there’s a lot that’s working Still not sure what’s behind the curtain Did you think it through well enough Every day the sun’s coming up Throwing ashes onto the lawn Still not sure where we went wrong I want to meet Gary Neal Want to tell you how I feel But my brain starts to win Feel my head start to spin Once my legs start to bend Hair will stiffen on my skin And I do not want to weep Just thought it would come again And I didn’t want to pry But I could not close my eyes I would rather compromise But the curtain starts to rise
6.
It’s here right now The great big shakedown Run, if you can, til you can’t You stick around It seemed so safe out Slept, on your back, in the grass But you knew, from the start What’s the hardest part Get it through, to your heart Til it breaks you up Yeah you knew, from the start What’s the hardest part It’s here right now The great big shakedown Run, if you can, til you can’t You got freaked out When I opened my mouth Grin, caved in, went black But you knew, from the start What’s the hardest part Get it through, to your heart Til it breaks you up Yeah you knew, from the start What’s the hardest part Weak chest drew shallow breath As I fell off the edge of the bed Head full of “I don’t knows” Spilling out on the floor where I land Do I dare, leave it there Dirty laundry in the air Weak chest drew shallow breath As I fell off the edge of the bed But you knew, from the start What’s the hardest part
7.
If Only 03:03
I wish I still got better sleep without another next to me, I’m lonely If only I knew how you feel, my legs could stop their shaking My heart could stop its breaking, if only If I could cut this tangled cord I know things would be better But I think I could never You won’t leave In a dream, are you calling out to me Or am I just saying things I wanna hear when I’m asleep Could it be? Should I read, develop vocabulary? But the concept that I must express is nothing new to me I would rewind and fix it all, but if I had the chance to I’d probably still hurt you, and you me If only you could see my light you’d come back home tomorrow night and hold me But I know that just can’t be right You build me up on Sunday, I’m down again by Monday If only
8.
I do not want I am too zen There is only one thing But oh that one thing And oh that one thing And just like that I’m off again And I do not know Where to begin With my one thing And knowing it isn’t enough When something is so hot All my love Victory And letting it leave Oh my one thing Oh my one thing And just like that I’m living it Closing my eyes and believing That I’m so zen Except for you my friend Hitting brass like a Charley Chimp Hitting brass like a Charley Chimp Hitting brass like a Charley Chimp Hitting brass like a And hitting it isn’t enough Now There has to be some kind of dove How I realize there’s a part of you inside of the bloom And when I hear those club hits it’s almost like I see you Not just a monkey And I’m not always clowning I won’t forget how you looked in your cat woman outfit Not just a monkey And I’m not always clowning I won’t forget how you looked in your cat woman outfit
9.
Tightrope 03:23
Far from the first crime that you carried out Walk the tightrope Your best foot forward, your head in the clouds With your eyes closed Now in a million ways, you’ve already chosen your fate And it’s far too late to turn around Every choice you made, only hiding a future mistake Won’t be long until you hit the ground Saw you how you want me to And it took me over Saw you how I wanted to Cut the lights and locked the door You know what we came for All of the things that you wanted to say Walk the tightrope Losing your balance, you can’t look away From the freakshow Lost and confused, you’re a ghost that refused to pass through And there’s noone that can hear you Now that you’re gone, everyone that you love has moved on And you’re shouting on a one way call Killed you how you want me to Saw your eyes roll over Killed you how I wanted to Shut the blinds and cleaned the floor Then you fell through the trap door Can’t forget the night the balcony caved in Watched you tear the bone through skin All you had to do was loosen up your lips You could sink the secret ship Face your fears while looking through a two way mirror The reflection doesn’t seem so clear And it’s starting to disappear
10.
Goodnight to planet earth Goodnight to loyal serfs Keep up the noble work We’ll get what we deserve Although we’re really hurt Although we’ve been coerced We shall be reimbursed For what we can for what we did They build improvements on the ground It’s 50% faster now The neighbors children can’t be found They’re meeting stars inside the cloud They’re lying down to face the ground Akashic records onward bound The weight of 20,000 towns Above the planet spinning round Goodnight to planet earth Goodnight to all who served And please don’t be disturbed We’ll get what we deserve
11.
Meant To Be 03:32
Now as fall finds the trees Changing color shed their leaves Float away in the breeze And now I wish that it was me The reflection of me Can’t be rippled, solid sea Try to push off the shore Tell me why I’d want to speak When I have time to myself I’d rather think about something else But I still try to believe The way things are is meant to be Sometimes inside a dream In the state I want to be Now I wake and I see This is my reality Turn around, try to face back towards the shore Only thing I see now is the slowly melting oar And the ships turn around and return themselves to port But I know that it won’t be me when you come back around Do you think about me It’s been so long now I can’t see But I still try to believe The way things are is meant to be Do you think about me A crystal ball that I can’t read Cause somehow all that I see Is a future with you next to me The way things are is meant to be
12.
With as much as I love being with you I wanna love my time alone But I just don’t know Well it’s been so long And I have such a simple mind I’m a newborn child for the second time (aw aw aw aw) (aw aw aw aw) I wanna have enough to say That I don’t have to dress it up so much But as it stands I add synths and strings and riffs just to make the song good enough I don’t wanna be alive I wanna be A.I I don’t wanna be alive I wanna be A.I I don’t wanna be alive I wanna be A.I I don’t wanna be alive I wanna be A.I I don’t wanna die I wanna be A.I I don’t wanna be alive I wanna be A.I Ok I know I’m not fixing and nothing broke I’m just getting going with the molding of a lump And my fingers aren’t God’s And the feeling is a pump that’s not yet rusted Still I cannot trust a cheap tin pipe At first I spoke But I had no mind With face fell to one side I couldn’t look behind I saw ants and worms from underneath I had to ask them to be kind to me

about

Though initially formed as an extension of the lifelong friendship between guitarist Isaac DeBroux-Slone and bassist Raina Bock, Disq has evolved into a far more democratic and egalitarian organization, as Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet finds guitarists Logan Severson and Shannon Conor splitting singing and songwriting duties with the aforementioned DeBroux-Slone and Bock. Such an approach could have easily fallen into the trap of “satisfying everyone, pleasing no one,” resulting in committee-approved music devoid of any personality or rough edges, but happily, the opposite is true.

Pushing play on Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, it is easy to imagine that it is the year 1998, and your cool older sister has returned from her freshman year at college only to hand you the sort of mind-altering mixtape out of which lifelong rock fanatics are born. It is the sort of record Beck might have made in his prime, if you swapped out the hip-hop and delta blues of Odelay for midwestern emo, Scottish power-pop, and the sort of all-American indie that functions as “classic rock” for this cherubic cohort.

Wrangling a melange of styles such as this is no simple task, but the record is held together by the powerful yet nimble rhythm section of Bock and drummer Stu Manley, whose muscular and hyperactive playing alternately keeps these adventurous compositions tethered firmly to the Earth and sends them soaring into stratosphere. Producer Matt Schuessler (the recording engineer of Collector making the most of his promotion) rarely lets a verse or chorus go by without adding some new sonic sparkle, keeping the arrangements an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of textures and moods. If there is a record in 2022 which squeezes more ideas into 41 minutes, then that record could surely only be the unlistenable mess that Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet avoids becoming so deftly.

Things being how they are in the world today, the idea of finding “someplace quiet” feels like an increasingly remote possibility, and the act of imagining such a place does, indeed, feel more and more desperate. Listening to Disq navigate the myriad twists and turns of their new album can feel akin to an attempted processing of our endless poly-crisis, where each new catastrophe and atrocity jostle for position at the top of the timeline. With their new album, Disq take a valiant stand against the temptation of complacency. As for that “someplace quiet?” It will have to wait... it's about to get loud in here.

credits

released October 7, 2022

Recorded in October 2021 at Mant Sounds in Los Angeles, with additional recording at our basement studio in February 2022

Produced and Engineered by Matt Schuessler
Additional Production and Engineering by Disq
Mixed by Matt Schuessler
Mastered by Bob Weston

Album Artwork by David Campos
Layout by Emma Headley

All songs performed by Disq

Additional performances by Johanna Samuels, Casey Butler, Graham Hunt, and Matt Schuessler where noted

Thank you to Matt Schuessler, Rob Schnapf, Michael Crino, the entire Saddle Creek team, Amber Carew, Ryan and Lindsey at TBA, Will Church at ATC Live, and all of our family, friends, and supporters

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